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Kally 0.14

What is Kalcite?

Kalcite is a compiled programming language and scene engine evolving toward games, native applications, and command-line tools. This is the Kally 0.14 manual. Its current source implementation emphasizes explicit costs: no embedded VM, no garbage collector, no hidden allocation, and fixed-capacity game-object pools.

It compiles .klc source through syntax, HIR and MIR stages toward platform backends. NumWorks is the reference constrained target; a desktop development runner and TI route are also implemented. A web backend is Planned, not currently documented as available.

Project status

Kalcite is actively evolving. Use the status labels in these docs: Current means implemented in the inspected source; Work in progress means code exists but the public workflow is still changing; Planned means roadmap work.

First concepts

  • .klc: Kalcite source file.
  • .kco: versioned Kalcite Compiled Object, currently carrying generated Rust no_std code.
  • kalcite.toml: project manifest.
  • @pool(N): fixed-capacity pool metadata for a class.

Read the Applications and UI roadmap for the distinction between today’s static GUI foundation and planned adaptive application UI.

Read Kally 0.14 for the version scope, compatibility policy, and release-documentation model.